Top 10 DVD sales and rentals for the prior week based on estimated consumer spending. According to the Rentrak Retail and Home Video Essentials proprietary tracking services, the ten top selling DVDs and the top ten most rented motion pictures, per data collected for the week ending September 7, 2008 include:
- The Little Mermaid – Ariel’s Beginning
Every story has a beginning but only one begins under the sea now for the first time ever discover the story you never knew in The Little Mermaid: Ariel s Beginning an all-new motion picture only on Disney DVD. Long ago in a kingdom where music is outlawed King Triton s youngest daughter Ariel discovers her love for music in a secret underground music club. Torn with the choice of whether to hide her passion or share it with her father and risk losing everything Ariel sets off on a daring adventure to restore music to Atlantica.I guess you can make good on a direct to DVD movie.
- The Office – Season 4
Steve Carell (Get Smart) returns in his Golden Globe®-winning role of The World s Greatest Boss Michael Scott in Season Four of the hit comedy series The Office! This must-own four-disc set includes every irreverent episode from Season Four including the five extended full TV-hour specials plus hours of hilarious deleted scenes and bonus features! Rejoin Jim (John Krasinski) and Pam (Jenna Fischer) as they bring romance to the workplace Dwight (Rainn Wilson) as he continues his quest to be Michael s right-hand man and newly deemed Wunderkind Ryan (B.J. Novak) who s working to drag Dunder Mifflin into the digital age. Developed for American TV by Primetime Emmy® Award winner Greg Daniels (King of the Hill The Simpsons) The Office is the intelligent and edgy Primetime Emmy® Award-winning series that critics are hailing as the funniest show on TV (Gavin Edwards Rolling Stone). You ll enjoy the inappropriate remarks uncomfortable silences and petty behavior again and again.
I still prefer the UK version. - What Happens in Vegas
After the wildest party night of their lives two mismatched strangers Jack (Ashton Kutcher) and Joy (Cameron Diaz) wake up in Vegas to discover they not only got lucky they got married! The road to annulment takes a hilarious turn after Jack wins a three-million-dollar jackpot while playing Joy s quarter and a no-nonsense judge (Dennis Miller) sentences them to six months hard marriage. What follows is an all-out war of the sexes as Jack and Joy go to outrageous lengths to try and cheat each other out of the money. But in the end they may learn that when you gamble on love you just might win against all odds. - The Nightmare Before Christmas (Collector’s Edition)
, here it is! The full title is Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, which should give you an idea of the tone of this stop-action animated musical/fantasy/horror/comedy. It is based on characters created by Burton, the former Disney animator best known as the director of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, and the first two Batman movies. His benignly scary-funny sensibility dominates the story of Halloweentown resident Jack Skellington (voice by Danny Elfman, who also wrote the songs), who stumbles on a bizarre and fascinating alternative universe called … Christmastown! Directed by Henry Selick (who later made the delightful James and the Giant Peach), this PG-rated picture has a reassuringly light touch. As Roger Ebert noted in his review, “some of the Halloween creatures might be a tad scary for smaller children, but this is the kind of movie older kids will eat up. - Heroes – Season 2
Heroes: Season 2 ultimately don’t detract from the show’s drive and vision. Season two spreads its supplemental features across all four of its discs; chief among these are commentary tracks by the cast and crew on all eleven episodes. The participating talent ranges from creator Tim Kring and stars Ventimiglia, Oka, Quinto and Greg Grunberg to composers Lisa Coleman and Wendy Melvoin, which helps to provide a wide variety of information about almost every aspect of the show’s production. Featurettes cover everything from the history of Takezo Kenzei to in-depth looks at scenes from the season, while “Untold Stories” explores storylines that were left unfinished due to the writers’ strike. The key extras are, of course, the alternate ending to the season finale (which is unfortunately revealed by the rear cover-art text) and an info-heavy sneak peek at Season 3. - Supernatural – The Complete Third Season
The yellow-eyed demon is vanquished, but at a terrible price. The battle that brought him down released hundreds of demons from Hell into an unsuspecting world. And it cost Sam his life. But a grief-stricken Dean made a deal with the Crossroad Demon â’“ his soul for Sam’s resurrection. Now Dean has just one year to live. One year to fight the unholy, the twisted, the ghoulish. One year to say farewell to Sam. And one year for Sam to search desperately for some way to save his brother. Mind-bending adventure awaits as the Winchester brothers continue their astonishing odyssey into the supernatural…and their personal odyssey into destiny. - Street Kings
Gripping performances by Keanu Reeves Academy Award® Winner Forest Whitaker* and an all-star supporting cast power this action-packed crime thriller in which a veteran cop finds himself ensnared in a deadly web of conspiracy and betrayal. Reeves stars as Tom Ludlow a hard-nosed detective with a talent for delivering brutal street justice. When evidence implicates him in the murder of a fellow officer the violence around Ludlow explodes as he realizes his own life is in danger and he can trust no one.From IMDB: “Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves), a veteran LAPD Detective, works in a Special Vice Squad Unit in Los Angeles. Ludlow has been suffering from depression since his wife died. On top of that, his former partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews) is murdered by two gang members. Ludlow goes on a wild and reckless quest through the mean streets of Los Angeles to track them down and get justice for Washington. Captain Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker) is Ludlow’s supervisor who must keep him from going over the edge and out of the cross-hairs of Internal Affairs Captain James Biggs (Hugh Laurie).”
- Bait Shop
Its Barbershop for Rednecks. Bill is a bait shop owner who has to make a balloon payment of $15,000 or else the bank will close his shop. Unable to make the payment from the proceeds of the shop, Bill must compete in the annual Bass Tournament, which he pathetically loses every year, to win the money.“Bass fishing is wildly popular,” producer Alan Blomquist said. “We’re not making fun of fishing; we’re laughing at ourselves. It’s a comedy–clean, family comedy–not a political statement, not a preachy film.”
Engvall plays a small-time bait shop owner facing a steep balloon payment and being pressured to sell out to big-bass-emporium owner “Hot Rod” Johnson, played by Cyrus. Engvall’s character gets talked into entering a big-money bass fishing tournament against Johnson–”one of those guys with a sequined jumpsuit,” Blomquist said. The small-time bait shop owner favors purist fishing methods–shunning modern tools such as GPS and chart-plotters, while Hot Rod is a proponent of technological enhancements. Of course, Engvall’s character ends up “triumphing and saving his bait shop,”
Now you know the plot, no need to watch this movie.
- Camp Rock
Get ready to sing and dance like never before with the electrifying Disney Channel Original Movie CAMP ROCK! Disney’s exclusive DVD and Blu-ray disc explode with “Too Cool” bonus features including an extended never-before-seen ending and “How To Be A Rock Star” a sensational series full of tips and secrets from the CAMP ROCK cast to help make your real-life rock star dream come true! When Mitchie scores a job as a cook at Camp Rock her life takes an unpredictable twist and she learns just how important it is to be true to yourself. Join the platinum-selling Jonas Brothers and the hottest cast of performers at the coolest summer camp anywhere! Experience CAMP ROCK in a whole new way in this Extended Rock Star Edition packed with hit music hip dance moves and bonus features that will have your family singing dancing and rocking over and over again. - Desperate Housewives – The Complete Fourth Season
Take a trip to the steamy side of suburbia as the acclaimed hit DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is hotter hipper and even more exciting in its sizzling fourth season. “It’s time for you to move back to Wisteria Lane” proclaims Entertainment Weekly. Temperatures are rising behind the closed doors of TV’s favorite guilty pleasure. Primetime’s most desired women are back and they’re joined by an old friend (Dana Delany) who brings the simmering neighborhood to a boil. Experience all 17 episodes of Season Four in a scintillating 5-disc set. Blazing with exclusive bonus features including a behind-the-scenes look at how an episode moves from the casting room to your TV screen.
Because of the writer’s strike we are going to see more direct-to-DVDs and a low in new movie DVDs. Since Holly is about to make money on remakes (Read More . . . ) .